St. Elmo's fire is a weather phenomenon in which luminous plasma is created by a corona discharge from a rod-like object such as a mast, spire, chimney, or animal horn in an atmospheric electric field
Illustration of St. Elmo's fire on a ship at sea
St. Elmo's fire on the flaps and flap track fairings of an A350 while going through a cumulonimbus cloud
Melancholia is a 2011 science fiction drama film written and directed by Lars von Trier and starring Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and Kiefer Sutherland, with Alexander Skarsgård, Brady Corbet,
St. Elmo's fire
…the Andrea Gail fishing vessel, there is a scene where the crew encounters St. Elmo's fire during the height of a storm. In Lars von Trier's 2011 film Melancholia, the phenomenon features in the opening sequence and later in the film as the rogue planet Melancholia approaches the Earth for an impact event. In…
Tjolöholm Castle in Halland, Sweden, where exterior scenes were filmed, viewed from above